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Can't you foks give your 'left-wing' vs 'pro gun' obsessions a rest - and put political 'gotchas' aside??? Especially when so many lives were lost???
My daughters go to school at the University of Binghamton... I called them as soon as I heard about this to make sure they were ok - because one of them was at an internship not too far from where the shooting went down...
The person who went bezerk was recently let go at IBM - I'll bet that had something to do with what happened... It will take days to put a motive together... but I would guess that in his mind - immigrants were responsible for his job loss... and he was out for revenge.
Actually, it doesn't matter how many Dems exist in government, the majority of people aren't tin foil hat wearing anti-gunners. Remember, the majority rules.
Clinton pulled it of and Obama has a Mandate whereas Clinton never did so... Anything is possible. You think that the majority is not anti-gunners, says who?
I'm not going to be surprised to see some state, maybe even New York, start to float a psychological test requirement for certain gun permits.
Our freedoms are based on the assumption that persons have a certain degree of self-control. When that belief among the public, or the presumption itself, comes into question, don't be surprised to see public support for the freedom to carry lethal weapons for no realistic purpose coming under increasing criticism.
Can't you foks give your 'left-wing' vs 'pro gun' obsessions a rest - and put political 'gotchas' aside??? Especially when so many lives were lost???
My daughters go to school at the University of Binghamton... I called them as soon as I heard about this to make sure they were ok - because one of them was at an internship not too far from where the shooting went down...
The person who went bezerk was recently let go at IBM - I'll bet that had something to do with what happened... It will take days to put a motive together... but I would guess that in his mind - immigrants were responsible for his job loss... and he was out for revenge.
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It's getting to the point where, even though it's for sure a tragedy, it happens so much in the US that I'm just not blown away by stuff like this.
It wasn't that way growing up. It was rarer 25 to 30 years ago.
We do need tighter regulations put in place that's for sure... I should fire a note off to Patty Murray in the Senate about the escalation of gun violence.
There's about 20,000 gun laws on the books in The US right now, according to the FBI. How about they enforce them instead of harassing law-abiding citizens. Criminals don't obey gun laws or any other law... that's why they're criminals!
It's getting to the point where, even though it's for sure a tragedy, it happens so much in the US that I'm just not blown away by stuff like this.
No, it doesn't happen "so much". We're a nation of over 300,000,000 people. There will be a few bad apples in the bunch.
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It wasn't that way growing up. It was rarer 25 to 30 years ago.
Not necessarily. The advent of 24 hour news channels and the Internet have had an enormous impact on the volume of incidents that get reported. 25 To 30 years ago, all the news had fit in one hour of reporting per night.
It is amazing how quickly the leftists here use the deaths of others to push their agendas....
I doubt they even care about the dead.
yeah, because the right-wingers who are using this shooting to advocate CCW for everyone are not doing such a thing
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